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In this Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 photo, shopper Ann Murphy of Brooklawn N.J. gathers produce at a WalMart, in Deptford N.J. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Obama Delays Trip In Bid To Save Health Care Reform, Walmart Goes For Local Food, DIY-ers Hang Hydroponic Gardens At Home, South Pole Explorer’s Diaries Reveal Agony of Defeat, Violin Virtuoso Rocks Films, Orchestras And Folk

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"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" star Zachary Gordon attends a special screening earlier this month (AP/StarPix)

Raise Taxes Or Cut Education In Illinois, Legislating Screening For Postpartum Depression, Why Russian Hackers Are So Successful, Ken Starr On ‘The Al Qaeda 7,’ Listener Letters, ‘Wimpy Kid’ Author

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Colleen LaRose, the self-described "Jihad Jane," faces terrorism charges in Pensylvania (AP/SITE Intelligence Group)

Jihad Jane Under Scrutiny, Inside The Magazine Industry With “Mr. Magazine”, School Closings In Kansas City?, The Latest From Israel, Ella Fitzgerald At “The Crescendo”

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Eric Massa Sounds Off, The Jobs Picture, Dirtbag Ball, Jihadology, “Keeping the Feast”

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Kathryn Bigelow with the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture (AP)

Mandating Health Care Hitch, Regulating The Financial Industry, Paul Farmer On Haiti, Iraq Elections, Saving Energy, Kathryn Bigelow

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White House Walking Back on KSM Trial?, The Dollmaker, What’s Wrong with New York?, Fired Teachers Could Get Jobs Back, Poets for Haiti

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Daniel Ellsberg, 78, at a movie event in Sept. 2009 (AP)

Hurdles For Health Care, A New Push To Regulate Wall Street, High-Stakes Iraqi Elections, An Update From Earthquake-Stricken Chile, Daniel Ellsberg Documentary “The Most Dangerous Man In America”

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Protestors with the Center for Orangutan Protection in Jakarta, Indonesia last month

Rangel Steps Aside (For Now), The Godfather of Nonviolent Resistance?, Texas & Tea Party Politics, Avatar’s Many Faces, Hunting Dolphins in “The Cove”

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This month local PBS stations will air Rounder Records' 40th anniversary concert, taped at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville last October (Rounder Records)

School Diversity Plan Under Fire In North Carolina, Fired Teachers in Rhode Island and Beyond, Under Pressure Greece Plans Austerity Package, Cell Phone Latency Problems, Forty Years Of Rounder Records

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When Will The Next Big One Occur?, Historian Julian Zelizer On The Partisan Divide, California Teenager Inspires “Cuss Free Week,” Afghanistan Corruption, The Wizards At WETA Who Created The Special Effects In “Avatar”

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Germany's Maria Riesch speeds down the course during the first run of the Women's slalom, at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics(AP)

Toyota From Congress To Courts, Vancouverites Look To Olympic Legacy, Murder In Dubai… Who Done It?, Helping AIDS Orphans In Swaziland, Yuriko: A Dancer With Martha Graham

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Dick Button skates during a practice session at the 1948 Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland

What Will The Health Care Summit Produce?, Is Temple Grandin Changing How Animals Are Treated?, The Case Against Amy Bishop, Force Feeding and the Doctor’s Dilemma, Listener Letters, Dick Button on Olympic Skating

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Toyota CEO Before Congress, Health Care Check-Up, Wyoming Considers A “Cowboy Code, Rebuilding In Haiti, Good Greens and Long Fairways

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How Many Jobs Will The Jobs Bill Create?, Restitution For Victims Of Child Porn, Shadow Of Saddam, Cyber-spying In High School?, The Best Pictures Of 1943

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Lay Low, 2007. (Arnar Ómarsson)

Health Care, Again, ‘Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows’, More Questions For Toyota, Olympics Update, Florida Woman Fights Court Order For Bed Rest While Pregnant, Iceland’s Patsy Cline Reflects On Finding Country Music

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This early Dec. 2009 photo provided by the Illinois River Biological Station via the Detroit Free Press shows Illinois River silver carp jump out of the water after being disturbed by sounds of watercraft. Many fear that the Asian carp, which can reach 4 feet long and weigh up to 100 pounds, will wreak havoc, not by attacking native fish, but starving them out by gobbling up plankton. Michigan asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, Dec. 21, 2009 to close shipping locks near Chicago to prevent the carp from invading the Great Lakes and endangering their $7 billion fishery. (AP Photo/Illinois River Biological Station via the Detroit free Press, Nerissa Michaels)

Plane Crash Pilot Had Decades-Long Fued with IRS, A Closer Look At Clergy Sex Abuse, Tiger Woods Emerges, Olympics Update, The Big Fish Swimming… To Chicago, Musician Matt Morris

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Olympic Champion Shaun White of the USA, center, runner up Peetu Piiroinen of Finland, left and third placed Scott Lago of the USA celebrate at the flower ceremony after the men's snowboard halfpipe competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

President Appoints Deficit Panel, Terror Trials Trouble, Olympics Update, Operation Mostarak, Listeners Weigh In, There Are No Small Roles

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President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the economy on the one year anniversary of the signing of the Recovery Act, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010, in the South Court Auditorium in the Old Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Stimulus Year One, Mayors Across America, The Skinny In Spain, President Obama To Meet The Dalai Lama, What Is Beauty?

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Number Two Taliban Commander Arrested, N.I.H. Chief On Science, Health And Faith, Living In Boston With No Central Heat- By Choice, Alabama Shooting Raises Questions In Massachusetts, Violin Prodigy Sam Weiser

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The Casa Dos Durasip House (Durasip.com)

U.S. Troops Facing Resistance in Marja, To Help Haiti, Expert Says Let Haitians Leave, Is The Solution To Haiti’s Housing Woes Fiberglass?, Winter Olympics Update, John McCain Is Feeling The Heat, Smelt Fishing In America

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A drawing of William and Ellen Craft (New York Historical Society).

Incumbents Get Nervous, Brain Scientist’s Stroke Leads To Enlightenment, ‘Cyber Cyrano’ Plays Matchmaker, Mental Health Providers In Ethiopia Looks West, Listener Letters, The Messrs. Craft

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French movie producer, Jacques Tati shoots a scene,  jumping in the role as camera man on the set producing his latest and third film "Mon Uncle" (My Uncle) in France, April 1958. (AP Photo)

Providing Shelter in Haiti, Is the U.S. Exporting Mental Illness?, Anniversary In Iran, Blizzard Heats Up Global Warming Debate, The Films Of Jacques Tati

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A snowplow clears the snow along Pennsylvania Ave., in front of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. (AP)

Toyota Safety Problems: Where Were The Regulators?, Previewing U.S. Prospects In Vancouver, A Look At Polygamy In North America

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President Obama with (from left) House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calf.; and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the White House. (AP)

Looking for a Thaw in Washington, The Great American University- Is It Under Threat?, Argentina Finds Clues About ‘Disappeared’ Through DNA, Amy Bloom’s ‘Where the God of Love Hangs Out’

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Waves pound the sandbagged seawall in Kivalina, Alaska, Sept., 2007. (AP)

Investigation Begins into Connecticut Gas Explosion, Sifting Through New Credit Card Rules, Alaskan Village Sues Oil Companies over Climate Change, Do Calories Count?

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A protestor holds an American flag and sign during the tax-day rally on the Capitol steps in Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Protesters gathered at state Capitols and in neighborhoods and town squares across the country Wednesday to kick off a series of tax-day protests designed to echo the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party. (AP)

NY Town Vies for 9/11 Trial, Student’s Suicide Raises Concerns Over Bullying Prevention, Tea Party Convention Kicks Off, The Life and Times of the NFL’s Bert Bell, Music From ‘Who Dat’ Nation

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A man drives a Toyota Motor Corp.'s "Prius Plug-in Hybrid" during a test drive event at a Toyota facility in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009.  (AP)

Scott Brown Jetting to Washington, Using the Airwaves for Political Force, Car Talk, Can Wikipedia Keep Growing?, ‘Love Letters and Some Not So Lovely Letters’

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Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen in Oct. 2008.  (AP Photo/Muhammad ud-Deen)

Yemeni Tankers Cleared for Boston, Al Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, and the Internet, Iran Launches Research Rocket, Crisis Camps Help in Haiti, Author Wells Tower

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Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. (AP)

Scaling Back Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Sifting Through the Tangled Process of Adopting from Haiti, Preserving Northern Forests, Navigating the Roads of Gaza, And the Nominees Are…

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A Toyota dealer is seen in Kamp-Lintfort, western Germany, Friday Jan.29, 2010. Toyota's still-expanding recalls over faulty gas pedals and an unprecedented decision to stop selling and building some of its top-selling models in the U.S. are costing the carmaker dearly: industry analysts are already forecasting its market share will sink to its lowest since 2006. Japanese Trade Minister Masayuki Naoshima sounded a note of alarm Friday about the tarnished reputation of Toyota Motor Corp., the nation's iconic automaker. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Toyota Announces Fix, Terrorism Trials, Maine Lawmaker Pushes for Cellphone Warning Label, GOP Targets President Obama’s Former Senate Seat, Contemplating fatherhood, family dysfunction, and Abu Ghraib

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RECENT SHOWS
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" star Zachary Gordon attends a special screening earlier this month (AP/StarPix)

Raise Taxes Or Cut Education In Illinois, Legislating Screening For Postpartum Depression, Why Russian Hackers Are So Successful, Ken Starr On ‘The Al Qaeda 7,’ Listener Letters, ‘Wimpy Kid’ Author

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Colleen LaRose, the self-described "Jihad Jane," faces terrorism charges in Pensylvania (AP/SITE Intelligence Group)

Jihad Jane Under Scrutiny, Inside The Magazine Industry With “Mr. Magazine”, School Closings In Kansas City?, The Latest From Israel, Ella Fitzgerald At “The Crescendo”

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RECENT STORIES

The DIY movement is moving mainstream. Check out projects ranging from swimming pools made from dumpsters and bicycles built from bamboo.

(Friday, March 12, 2010)
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The mother of one of our colleagues Stef Kotsonis died late last year at age 77. In eulogizing his mom, Helen Panopalis Kotsonis, Stef remarked on one thread of her life that involved a woman named Masha Leon, and led us to a remarkable story that begins with the Holocaust and ends with a gift [...]

(Friday, March 5, 2010)
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NOTES & UPDATES

Welcome to our newest listeners in Orlando, FL, Chicago, IL, Morris, IL and Chesterton, IN! In the past few months we’ve been joined by new stations in Alaska, Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

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Some recent stories we thought you’d enjoy- from our conversation with oncologist Jerome Groopman about the status of the war on cancer, to accordion champion Cory Pesaturo.

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Here & Now producers share their favorite music, books and websites.

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Looking for a book for the young person in your life? We share our favorites.

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